Microsoft Outlook Setup And Troubleshooting

To manage multiple email accounts Microsoft outlook is the best application in which you can create rules to receive an email to particular folder automatically, so you can easily track the emails.  There are many features in outlook which makes it best from others here  I am discussing few of them, In outlook you can create signatures so that next time while you send email no need to type your info in footer, out of office template sometimes we are on leave from office and want to send reply o emails then you can create a out of office template and it till send automatically when you receive any email so that person notify that you are not in office and revert on email once you back, the one feature is awesome which is email scheduling in outlook you can schedule the future email which will send automatically at exact time these are sample features of outlook. Now I will tell you how to solve outlook problems.

Q. What is PST file?

A. While you configure you email account on outlook it will automatically create a PST file in which your emails will save and you can also take the backup of that file so if in future if you if any mail deleted by mistake so you can recover it from backup PST file. The default location of PST file is “
C:\Documents and Settings\user_id\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook”

Q. Mail goes to spam folder automatically?

A. Waiting for long time and no mail received its frustrated and suddenly you check and found that email is in “Junk Email” folder you need to add that sender in safe senders do next time that email goes to your inbox, go to junk folder and right click on that email and go to junk email and click on “add senders to safe senders list”. help.microsoft.com talk to a person

Q How to setup Gmail on outlook 2013 using IMAP?

A. To setup Gmail on outlook first open your Gmail account in browser after that go to settings from gear icon, in the POP / IMAP tab click enable IMAP then save the settings. 

Step-1 Open outlook 2013 and click on add account from file-> info tab,

Step-2 Click on manual setup or additional server type and press next.

Step-3 Enable POP or IMAP then press next.

Step-4 your name: (Type the name here which you want to show the receivers of your email).

             Email address: Type your Gmail ID (ID@Gmail.com).

Step-5 Account type: IMAP.

             Incoming mail server: IMAP.Googleemail.com

             Outgoing mail server (SMTP): smtp.googleemail.com

Step-6 Username: Type your Gmail ID (ID@Gmail.com).

             Password: Enter your email password.

Step-7 Click on more settings, on outgoing server tab check the box next to My outgoing server requires authentication now click the logon using radio button and enter your email ID and password.

Note: Make sure that the username does not have @gmail.com included or your mail will not be sent.

Step-8 On the advance tab for IMAP selects SSL from drop down and for SMTP selects TLS and do the settings as shown in below figure then click next, all set to go now enjoy.

            

If you are facing any other problem as mentioned above visit Microsoft outlook support and help or type your query below in comments section.